Teachers in Wash. vote to end strike AP: Striking teachers in Washington state's third-largest school district voted Thursday afternoon to accept a contract, ending a walkout that has kept students out of class for eight days.

Chicago public schools cuts 200 central office jobs Chicago Tribune: Chicago Public Schools officials announced Thursday that they have trimmed the Chief Education Office and network offices by 200 positions for a savings of $16 million, part of a districtwide reorganization plan under CPS' new leadership team.

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Nothing new is "reported" in the "report" cited in the New York Times story on single-sex education; it's more aptly labelled an opinion piece by a group whose members were avowedly pro-coeducation before they decided to get together to write, or at least sign on to, the article. In essence, they are making an argument to take away the freedom to offer single-sex programmes with public funding, thus mandating coeducation as the only option to that majority of Americans who cannot afford private education.